+.. -*- mode: rst; fill-column: 78 -*-
+.. ex: set sts=4 ts=4 sw=4 et tw=79:
+
+.. _project_electrophys:
+
+*****************
+Electrophysiology
+*****************
+
+The majority of the electrophysiology research community in neuroscience is
+`locked-in` the proprietary software solutions which accompanying data
+acquisition hardware. That impairs their ability to adopt novel data analysis
+methodologies and experimental setups. There already exist a variety of
+primarily Linux-based FOSS_ solutions in this domain. But software
+development and dissemination is often impaired by the absence of the efforts
+centralization and existing problems with the support of the core components
+by the used operating systems. Nevertheless, Debian_ and its derivatives
+already dominate as the operating systems of choice by such projects.
+
+We are planing to help addressing existing issues in the core necessary
+components provided by Debian_ to help upstream authors with streamlining
+their development. Furthermore we are planing to package some popular
+deployment-ready |FOSS| solutions and make them an integral part of Debian_.
+
+Status
+------
+
+We have collected information on interesting and alive projects in this domain
+within neuroscience-electrophysiology_ task page. To gather information on
+the needs of the researchers interested in this field we have researched
+researchers demands while helding a :ref:`Debian booth at SfN10 conference
+<chap_debian_booth_sfn2010>`. To further elaborate the work plan, we have
+initiated discussions with upstream authors (private correspondence and on
+neurodebian-devel_, neurodebian-upstream_ mailing lists).
+
+.. todo:: Electrophysiology coverage
+
+ * Help to ensure adequate status in Debian of the necessary core components,
+ e.g. Comedi_, RTAI_ (see |DBTS|: 606122_, 608091_, 609633_):
+ * Consider packaging prebuilt kernels with |RTAI| patches/support to make
+ available from NeuroDebian repository
+
+.. _606122: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606122
+.. _608091: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608091
+.. _609633: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609633
+
+..
+ .. _: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=
+
+
+References
+----------
+
+* RTAI_
+* Comedi_
+* `Debian-Science Electrophysiology task page <http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/electrophysiology>`_.
+* `Debian-Science Data acquisition task page <http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/dataacquisition>`_.
+* `Debian-Science Brain-Computer Interface task page <http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/bci>`_.
+
+
+.. include:: link_names.txt